Jaron

1. What brought you to HYC?

Madelyn Stuart brought me to HYC. I was a couple years out from seriously fracturing my right heel bone, on the same leg I had shattered a decade earlier. After several surgeries, significant atrophy, and the accompanying mobility dysfunction that had radiated throughout my body, I was essentially disabled with chronic pain. In addition to my physical condition, I was under enormous stress in my personal life. I don’t feel it’s a stretch to say that Madelyn saved my life by bringing HYC into it, and I’ll be forever grateful to both.

2. What keeps you coming back?

Besides the ever inspiring and strong instructors who have each taught me so much, I keep coming back because HYC is a true community, full of genuine, compassionate people. It is a place of healing, where I have rebuilt my mental, emotional, and physical strength. It is a place to love and be loved, both intrinsically and extrinsically.

3. When you are not at the studio, how do you spend your time?

When not at the studio, I split the majority of my time between my physical therapy work at home and cultivating my business. Otherwise, I’ve been teaching myself how to cook, I love music, (especially live and on vinyl), I have an insatiable appetite to learn new things, and I’ve been rekindling my smoldering love affair with books. And I like to go beering. There are many fine beering establishments in CVille. Nothing like a post-yoga re-hydration session at your favorite watering hole!

4. What is one thing that not many people know about you?

Most people don’t know that I cry at sappy movies. Like the Notebook… we’re talking ugly cry on that one. Come on, man, it was so sweet that the husband voluntarily lived in the “old folks home” with his wife, just to have those few moments together again when she was lucid. Are you serious? Gaaaaaaa!

5. You’ve got one wish for the world – what is it?

My one wish for the world: If we all refused to succumb to fear, a lot of shit would resolve.